English: Photograph of Lonnie E. Smith casting his vote in the 1944 Texas Democratic Presidential primary
Caption reads as follows: By permission of the U.S. Supreme Court, Lonnie Smith, Negro, votes in Texas Democratic primary PICTURE OF THE WEEK The U.S. Supreme Court last April ruled that Negroes cannot legally be barred from voting in Texas Democratic primaries. The case was brought by Lonnie Smith, Negro dentist in Houston, who was refused voting permission in 1940 primary. On July 22 Smith and thousands of other Negroes reaped the benefit of the Supreme Court decision. For the first time in history great numbers of them were allowed to vote in a Texas Democratic primary.
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